In this episode, we're starting to put together the checkout process for our booking system! The main focus here is to scaffold (basically lay out the structure for) the checkout page when a user has already picked an employee and a service. You’ll see how we set up the routes and a new CheckoutController, making sure it can handle both the selected service and the chosen employee.
We talk through how our URL should hold these pieces of info, and set up some route bindings so that Laravel only lets people book valid service-employee combos (e.g., you can’t book someone for a service they don’t offer—you’ll just get a 404). Pretty handy!
Once the backend is ready, we start wiring up the front-end Inertia page: bringing in the employee and service as props, and dumping out some details (like the profile photo, name, service title, and price) to make sure our data is all there. The UI gets organized into neat sections: a summary of what's being booked, a future spot for a booking calendar/slot picker, and a place for customer info. It’s all still just scaffolding for now, but it sets us up to fill in the booking flow step-by-step in upcoming episodes.
Finally, we mention that soon we'll adapt the checkout for cases where a user picks only a service to start with, and chooses the employee later (coming in the next episode!).